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Putting the word out.

Ladder7Ladder7 Posts: 1,221 ✭
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Scammer

Victim


Tinyurl removed, standard url replaced. Pardon any inconvenience.
some cards

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  • drewsefdrewsef Posts: 1,894 ✭✭
    more tinyurl links, spam elsewhere
  • Ladder7Ladder7 Posts: 1,221 ✭


    Hey bobo, Just trying to help make the hobby a safer place. Be part of the solution and keep your obnoxious comment to yourself.

    Incidentally, Can you explain how this post is spam?.. Let me know when you've got a clue. (I don't expect a reply soon)
    some cards
  • jimq112jimq112 Posts: 3,511 ✭✭✭
    I passed on a message to the seller, hopefully he gets it stopped.

    I think on all my scans I'm going to start putting my name or something as a watermark. It's getting out of hand. You almost have to ask for a back scan on anything expensive!
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 32,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good post by Ladder, whats the big deal Drewsef? I appreaciate the heads up on scammers, by the way that Cracker Jack card has to be the ugliest psa 4 I have seen..
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭
    I don't think this thread is spam....I know it's been suggested before, but why don't we start a single thread to ID scammers, kinda like we have the mail call thread for new additions to collections?
  • BarfvaderBarfvader Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭✭
    TinyURL Criticism

    The convenience offered by a TinyURL also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of TinyURLs.

    TinyURLs are opaque, hiding the ultimate destination from a web user. This can be used to unwittingly send people to sites that offend their sensibilities, or crash or compromise their computer using browser vulnerabilities. To help combat such abuse, TinyURL allows a user to set a cookie-based preference such that TinyURL stops at the TinyURL website, giving a preview of the final link, when that user clicks TinyURLs. Substituting preview.tinyurl.com for tinyurl.com in the URL is another way of stopping at a preview of the final link before clicking through to it.

    Opaqueness is also leveraged by spammers, who can use such links in spam (mostly blog spam), bypassing URL blacklists.

    TinyURLs also introduce a dependency on a third-party service that may change, go away, or maintain privacy-compromising logs of user activity indefinitely.

    These and other potential problems with TinyURLs have led some corporations to block access to TinyURLs.



    Jeff

    Miscut Museum

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  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,631 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I don't think this thread is spam....I know it's been suggested before, but why don't we start a single thread to ID scammers, kinda like we have the mail call thread for new additions to collections? >>



    I think that's a good idea. Knowledge is power brother!
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • ebayaddictebayaddict Posts: 232 ✭✭
    Good call on the Brown auction............................................


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    "You must understand the difference in things that are similar, and the similarity of things that are different"

  • jimq112jimq112 Posts: 3,511 ✭✭✭
    I misunderstood and thought it was another stolen scan.

    That happened to me last year with a hockey card we sold to canada. It never arrived but the guy who bought it listed the same numbered card on ebay a few months later. Ebay and paypal both wouldn't listen.

    Is life so bad for some people that they have to lie cheat and steal to get a few dollars?
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  • bhl2359bhl2359 Posts: 420 ✭


    << <i>Good post by Ladder, whats the big deal Drewsef? I appreaciate the heads up on scammers, by the way that Cracker Jack card has to be the ugliest psa 4 I have seen.. >>



    If you haven't noticed before, drewsef is a big pain in the butt. Just an FYI.
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